Laham: Syria Ready to Cooperate with World Parliaments to Solve Crisis

DAMASCUS,(ST)_ Parliament Speaker Jihad al-Laham  stressed the role of world  parliamentarians in support of efforts to promote peace and fight against terrorism and the need for parliaments  neutrality and objectivity in dealing with events.

Meeting yesterday the Secretary General of the Mediterranean Sergio Byazeh , Laham  pointed  the need to see the reality of events in Syria and convey  a true picture to the world public opinion about international terrorism , resulted from  media monochrome which serves  Western countries agendas , stressing that  countries that support terrorism in Syria practiced deception on their peoples , alleging support for  freedom and democracy.

He spoke about  terrorism posed on Syria at the hands of the takfiri terrorist groups brought in  from all over the world under the coordination of Arab and Western  intelligence  with the aim to hit Syria a country of tolerance and co-existence through the dissemination of obscurantist thoughts  based on murder ,rejection of the other and sabotage of the social fabric in Syria and distorting the Syrian civilization.

He called on the Mediterranean parliament  to push  neighboring countries to stop supporting terrorists, and come up with a political parliamentary  initiative to encourage a peaceful  political solution in Syria, stressing that the Syrian parliament is ready to cooperate with all world parliaments to ensure political solution that guarantees political pluralism with the participation of all  Syrians  .

For his part, Byazeh pointed  Mediterranean parliament ‘s care  on the security and stability of Syria and to support efforts to bring peace and convey a true picture on the nature  of events, pointing out that Syria’s pays for mistakes of the international community in Iraq and Afghanistan .

Byazeh stressed that there is a difference between what is  rumored in the media and true information owned by the governments of some countries , noting  a document issued by recent meeting the EU Political Committee on the  heavy presence of armed foreigners in Syria, noting that this document, a copy of  which he had received through the High Commissioner  for Policy Foreign and security in the European Union Catherine Ashton , is the first document issued by the Union talking  about the presence of extremist elements fighting in Syria.

T. Fateh